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Diary by Witold Gombrowicz
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.34A single-volume edition of Diary, Gombrowicz's acclaimed masterpiece, now with previously unpublished pages restored Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home... -
Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802145628Format PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Grove Press / Atlanti -
Cosmos and Pornografia by Witold Gombrowicz
Booksplease Price: £12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802151599Author Witold GombrowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint -
Pornografia by Witold Gombrowicz 9780802145130
Booksplease Price: £13.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802145130Author Witold GombrowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint -
The Possessed by Witold Gombrowicz 9781804270615
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In The Possessed, Witold Gombrowicz, considered by many to be Poland’s greatest modernist, draws together the familiar tropes of the Gothic novel to produce a darkly funny and playful subversion of... -
Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz 9780300181678
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £15.91In this bitterly funny novel a writer finds himself tossed into a chaotic world of schoolboys by a diabolical professor who wishes to reduce him to childishness. Originally published in Poland in... -
Outsider Everywhere: Witold Gombrowicz in Argentina Mercedes Halfon 9781804272350
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In August 1939, a ship flying the Polish flag docked in Buenos Aires. On board was a delegation of businessmen, diplomats and journalists. Days later, the captain received orders to return home with... -
A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes by Witold Gombrowicz 9780300181685
Booksplease Price: £10.77In a small literary gem full of sardonic wit, brilliant insights, and provocative criticism Witold Gombrowicz discusses Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Heidegger in six "one-hour"... -
Under Latin American Eyes Witold Gombrowicz in Argentinian Literature by Ryszard Nycz 9783631874271
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £41.62This book explores the influence and reception of Witold Gombrowicz's works in Argentina, where he spent over two decades and wrote much of his oeuvre. It examines the "Gombrowicz effect" in... -
Polish, Hybrid, and Otherwise: Exilic Discourse in Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz by George Z. Gasyna 9781441153005
Booksplease Price: £40.38Polish, Hybrid, and Otherwise examines the triple compact made by displaced authors with language, their host country, and the homeland left behind. It considers the entwined phenomena of... -
![Three Plays: "Princess Ivona", "The Marriage" and "Operetta" by Witold Gombrowicz 9780714529653](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2085151/2084608/9780714529653__94827.1708746452.jpg?c=1 "Three Plays: "Princess Ivona", "The Marriage" and "Operetta" by Witold Gombrowicz 9780714529653")
Three Plays: "Princess Ivona", "The Marriage" and "Operetta" by Witold Gombrowicz 9780714529653
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £15.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714529653Author Witold GombrowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
The Novel of Crepuscular Universes - Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, Hermann Broch, Witold Gombrowicz, Gunter Grass, Curzio Malaparte, Heinrich Boell, L.- by Ion Vlad 9780880336635
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Ion Vlad investigates the distinct heraldry of "the novel of ideas" and whether this taxonomy is still viable within the wide and heterogeneous sphere of narrative. He closely reads the work of... -
European Notebooks: New Societies and Old Politics, 1954-1985 by Francois Bondy 9780765802712
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98A generation of outstanding European thinkers emerged out of the rubble of World War II. It was a group unparalleled in their probing of an age that had produced totalitarianism as a political norm,... -
Holocaust and the Stars: The Past in the Prose of Stanislaw Lem Agnieszka Gajewska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.) 9780367428730
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £45.04This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master Stanislaw Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors... -
The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature by Tomasz Bilczewski 9780367691745
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £44.24The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature offers an introduction to Polish literature through thirty-three case studies, covering works from the Middle Ages up to the present day. Each... -
On Directing and Dramaturgy: Burning the House by Eugenio Barba
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83"A theatre which is able to speak to each spectator in a different and penetrating language is not a fantastic idea, nor a utopia. This is the theatre for which many of us, directors and leaders of... -
The Lights of Home: A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris Jason Weiss 9780415940139
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Because of political, cultural, or economic difficulties in their homelands, Latin American writers have often sought refuge abroad. Their independent searches for a haven in which to write often... -
Contemporary European Playwrights by Maria M. Delgado
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.44Contemporary European Playwrights presents and discusses a range of key writers that have radically reshaped European theatre by finding new ways to express the changing nature of the continent's... -
Tadeusz Kantor Noel Witts 9780815364146
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83Tadeusz Kantor - a theoretician, director, innovator and painter famed for his very visual theatre style - was a key figure in European avant-garde theatre. He was also known for his challenging... -
Tradition, Literature and Politics in East-Central Europe by Carl Tighe
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Milan Kundera warned that in in the states of East-Central Europe, attitudes to the west and the idea of 'Europe' were complex and could even be hostile. But few could have imagined how the collapse... -
The Erotics of Restraint: Essays on Literary Form by Douglas Glover 9781771962919
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Why do we read? What do we cherish in a book? What is the nature of a masterpiece? What do Alice Munro, Albert Camus, and the great Polish experimentalist Witold Gombrowicz have in common? In the... -
The Bilingual Text: History and Theory of Literary Self-Translation Jan Walsh Hokenson 9781900650939
Booksplease Price: £50.71Bilingual texts have been left outside the mainstream of both translation theory and literary history. Yet the tradition of the bilingual writer, moving between different sign systems and audiences... -
Alternative Theatre in Poland by Kathleen Cioffi
RRP: £73.99Booksplease Price: £68.04The complex nature of the relationship between theatre and politics is explored in this study of the Polish theatre scene. It traces the development of the alternative theatre movement from its... -
The Origins of Anti-Authoritarianism by Nina Witoszek
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04This book discusses the ongoing revolution of dignity in human history as the work of 'humanist outliers': small groups and individuals dedicated to compassionate social emancipation. It argues that... -
The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories by Antonia Lloyd-Jones 9780241563403
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05A revelatory and richly varied collection of Poland's greatest short stories, with a foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Olga TokarczukWitty, surprising and sparkling, this anthology is an essential... -
Polish Queer Modernism by Piotr Sobolczyk 9783631662762
RRP: £50.40Booksplease Price: £45.41This book is a study of twentieth century Polish literature in the contexts of queer theory, psychoanalysis and modernism studies. It presents readings of well-known authors such as Witold Gombrowicz... -
Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) by Kamila Pawlikowska 9789004302259
Booksplease Price: £85.46Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) is a study of a-physiognomic descriptions of the face. It demonstrates that writers such as George... -
Queer Transgressions in Twentieth-Century Polish Fiction: Gender, Nation, Politics by Jack J. B. Hutchens 9781793605054
Booksplease Price: £37.42Throughout the twentieth century in Poland various ideologies attempted to keep queer voices silent-whether those ideologies were fascist, communist, Catholic, or neo-liberal. Despite these... -
Queer Transgressions in Twentieth-Century Polish Fiction: Gender, Nation, Politics by Jack J. B. Hutchens 9781793605030
Booksplease Price: £85.65Throughout the twentieth century in Poland various ideologies attempted to keep queer voices silent—whether those ideologies were fascist, communist, Catholic, or neo-liberal. Despite these... -
Trans-Atlantyk: An Alternate Translation by Danuta Borchardt
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05A brilliant, semiautobiographical satirical novel from one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century Polish literature, now in a new English translation Considered by many to be among the greatest... -
Insatiability by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.51This novel, the author's masterpiece, is one of the greatest expressions ever of the tortured intersection of political and personal destinies in Eastern Europe. Futuristic, experimental, and... -
Medallions by Zofia Nalkowska 9780810117433
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Considered a masterpiece of antifascist world literature, Medallions stands as the culmination of Nalkowska's literary style, a style the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz once described as "the iron... -
Pow! by Mo Yan
Booksplease Price: £13.92In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mo Van, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family... -
Gombrowicz in Transnational Context: Translation, Affect, and Politics by Silvia G. Dapia 9781032092249
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) was born and lived in Poland for the first half of his life but spent twenty-four years as an emigre in Argentina before returning to Europe to live in West Berlin and... -
Gombrowicz: An Introduction Aleksandra Konarzewska 9781032010434
Booksplease Price: £60.08This book is a short introduction to Witold Gombrowicz's life and work as one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century literature and theater, providing intertextual perspectives that allow... -
Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change by Daniel Just 9781032290157
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Transformative Fictions: World Literature and Personal Change engages with current debates in world literature over the past twenty years, addressing the nature of literary influence in centers and... -
Lost and Found Voices: Four Gay Male Writers in Exile by Luc Beaudoin 9780228013877
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £61.77One writer is stranded by the Second World War. Another flees multiple revolutions to live the rest of his life in Rio de Janeiro. Two others, public about their sexuality at home, choose self-exile... -
Breathing under Water and Other East European Essays by Stanislaw Baranczak
RRP: £68.95Booksplease Price: £55.86Stanislaw Baranczak, a Polish writer in exile, turns to his colleagues and their plights, in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the Soviet Union, to explain why oppressive regimes could not succeed... -
Volume 12, Tome V: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art: The Romance Languages, Central and Eastern Europe by Jon Stewart
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44While Kierkegaard is primarily known as a philosopher or religious thinker, his writings have also been used extensively by literary writers, critics and artists. This use can be traced in the work... -
Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature by Katarzyna Bartoszynska 9781421440644
RRP: £81.50Booksplease Price: £54.21For centuries, the standard account of the development of the novel focused on the rise of realism in English literature. Studies of early novels connected the form to various aspects of British life...